Born in 1949, a doctorate in law, specializing in public law. He has been a research assistant at the Institute of Public Law at the University of Frankfurt and has lectured on constitutional law, administrative law and theory of law at the University of Hamburg. As a journalist, he has led for some years in the magazine Der Spiegel, the German policy section. As the author of the magazine has dedicated its latest work to the current political developments in Germany and Europe. This Editorial has published consensus Entrapment (2005).